Brexit and Democracy is now on Smashwords

Brexit and Democracy: Reclaiming full and equal suffrage from the political cartel is now on Smashwords. A detailed survey of Brexit and the historical, philosophical and political issues surrounding it, this is your unmissable Brexit companion!

• Why did it take the Scottish National Party to start an "avalanche of philosophy" in Britain that finally saw the long-promised EU membership referendum materialise?
• What was the 2012 incident that enabled UKIP to put a crack in the political cartel?
• Why was nothing done when Otto Kirchheimer started noticing cartelisation in European political parties in the mid-1950s?
• Did the Marshall Plan unwittingly lay the groundwork for the eventual formation of the European Union?
• What is the relationship between the German and Italian unification processes and the EU?
• Did nation states start to evolve from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, or from the 1555 Peace of Augsberg?

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"Brexit and Democracy" is now on Kindle

Brexit and Democracy: Reclaiming full and equal suffrage is out on Amazon for Kindle. It deals with the following questions:

• Was the 2005 general election rigged - and if so, why?
• Was Britain's entry to the Iraq war linked to the above?
• How did 56 Scottish National Party MPs arriving in Westminster in 2015 make the EU referendum possible?
• Why did the Liberal Democrats switch from opposing a referendum to demanding one?
• Why was a plan for European monetary union abandoned in the early 1970s?
• And what on earth does the cover illustration signify?

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"Brexit and Democracy" is coming!

This is the preface to Brexit and Democracy: Reclaiming full and equal suffrage from the political cartel, which I hope to release as an ebook on Monday 5 June 2017.

This tract has come out of some five years of investigating the state of democracy in Britain in particular and Europe in general, after I started analysing general election figures and found an anomaly for 2005. I have written on this before and, if anybody has bought Brexit and Democracy specifically to find out more about this issue, you could go straight to Chapter 12, Was the 2005 general election rigged? Or if you would like more contextual information, you could start at Chapter 11, The UK political cartel tightens or even Chapter 10, Towards catastrophe via crisis.

I have written Brexit and Democracy to be either read through or dipped into. There’s a lot of philosophy in Chapter 6, Heidegger’s diaspora, so you might decide to skip it, but you might find trying to tackle it helps you understand the European integration process and related British politics, especially as far as “authenticity” and “inauthenticity” is concerned.

Whatever your views on European integration, I hope you find Brexit and Democracy a useful resource. But, more than that, I hope you enjoy it.

Gerry Dorrian
Cambridge, June 2017